Fearne Cotton Books in Order

If you're new to Fearne's wellbeing books: Happy � Calm � Quiet � Speak Your Truth.
If you want deeper spiritual reflection: Bigger Than Us.
If you love practical cookbooks: Cook Happy, Cook Healthy � Cook. Eat. Love. � The Imperfect Vegan.
If you're choosing books for kids and families: Yoga Babies � Hungry Babies � Your Mood Journal � Happy From Head to Toe.
If you prefer fiction: Scripted.

Fearne Cotton is an English broadcaster, author and founder of the Happy Place wellbeing brand, known for bringing open conversations about happiness, anxiety and everyday life into mainstream TV, radio and publishing. For many people she is a familiar, friendly voice from years of live broadcasting and now from her books and podcast.

She was born in Northwood in north west London in 1981 and grew up nearby in Eastcote, the daughter of a signwriter and a mother who worked in alternative therapy. She went to a local state school, Haydon School, and has often talked about feeling like a fairly ordinary teenager who loved art, music and making people laugh.

At 15 she won a talent competition to present a childrens show and suddenly found herself on screen, hosting early morning episodes of The Disney Club. That first job led to a long run fronting childrens television, from arts and crafts on Finger Tips to weekend shows on CBBC, before she moved into mainstream programmes like Top of the Pops, Love Island and The Xtra Factor.

Radio became another home. She joined BBC Radio 1 in 2005, first co hosting with Reggie Yates and later becoming the first regular woman to present the stations chart show. From 2009 to 2015 she hosted the weekday mid morning show, championing new bands and the Live Lounge, and along the way picked up a major industry award for best music programme. After a decade on the station she stepped away to focus on family life and new projects.

Since 2016 she has been a regular on BBC Radio 2, including fronting Sounds of the 90s, while building Happy Place into a much broader space. What began with her book Happy grew into the Happy Place podcast, where she talks to guests about mental health, creativity and purpose, and then into festivals, live events and a wellbeing app that reach a large global audience.

Writing has become just as central as broadcasting. After co authoring The Best Friends' Guide to Life with Holly Willoughby, she moved into cookbooks such as Cook Happy, Cook Healthy and later into personal development titles including Happy and Calm. She has gone on to write further books about quieting self criticism and exploring meaning, including Quiet and Bigger Than Us, as well as childrens titles like Yoga Babies and activity led journals that help young readers name their feelings.

Across these projects run a few clear threads. She is interested in small, practical things people can do each day, rather than grand promises. Her books often mix her own stories with interviews, simple exercises, space to draw or write and reminders that it is normal to feel messy or uncertain.

Cotton has also spoken openly about her experiences of depression, anxiety and disordered eating in her teens and twenties, and how therapy, boundaries and healthier habits have helped her over time. That honesty feeds into her work with charities and campaigns around mental health and cancer awareness, including support for Mind, The Princes Trust and CoppaFeel, as well as earlier fundraising climbs and treks.

Today she lives in London, co parents her two children and juggles writing, broadcasting and running the Happy Place brand. She still loves painting and music, and often talks about trying to protect simple, offline moments in the middle of a very public career. More than anything, her work aims to make conversations about how we really feel a little softer, a little more straightforward and a lot more common.